The Odyssey

What did Odysseus find when he took a group to look for his three lost men?

• They had fallen into a deep crack in the ground and could not escape

• They were lounging on the grass eating lotus fruit and wanted to stay there

• they were being forced to carry heavy burdens by men dressed in armor

• they had been frozen by a nymph who was angry that they had taken her water

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Once the Cyclops in the cave began to snore, why didn't Odysseus stab him?

• He hoped to trade the Cyclops for several of his men who had been captured

• He remembered his dream in which the cyclops had risen up to kill him

• He feared that blood gushing from the Cyclops's wound would drown his crew

• He and his men needed the Cyclops to move the stone blocking the enterance

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After leaving Aeolus, Why didn't Odysseus and his men land in Ithaca?

• Aeolus's floating island sank, creating a wave that pushed them off course

• The men opened the ox-hide bag while Odysseus slept, releasing the winds.

• Aeolus, thinking he had been tricked, followed and engaged them in battle

• soldiers from Ithaca did not recognize them and fired on them from the shore

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What happened after Odysseus's men ate food Circe had prepared for them?

• they fell into a deep sleep, during she cut off all their hair

• they became pigs, and she beat them with a stick until they ran outside

• They sprouted horns from their heads and used them to fight each other

• they grew strong enough to lift their grounded ship back into the water

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Odysseus was the only one to remain alive after---

• the Sirens convinced his men to slam their boat into a rock at full speed

• Zeus punished the cattle murderers by hitting the ship with lighting

• Tiresias directed the octopus to pull the ship to the ocean bottom

• an angry hades demanded the men's souls to make up for an insult to charon

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Penelope told her suitors she couldn't marry anyone until she had---

• visited Troy, the place where Odysseus had last been seen

• found a proper bride for Telemachus

• received a sign from Hermes, the messenger of the gods

• woven a shroud fit for Odysseus's father

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Why did the goddess Athene tell Telemachus to do?

• assemble a small army of men to drive Penelope's suitors away

• sail across the sea to ask the other Greek kings for news of his father

• build a shrine to Zeus to beg forgiveness for Odysseus

• Declare Odysseus to be dead and take his rightful place on the throne

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How did Poseidon punish the Phaeacians for helping Odysseus?

• He sent a plague of grass hoppers to destroy all their crops

• He afflicted the king and his family with terrible sores

• He withdrew the water from their harbor, leaving them high and dry

• he struck at their ship with his had and turned it to stone

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Where was Telemachus reunited with his father, Odysseus?

• on the deck of Telemachus's ship

• in the temple of Athene, the goddess of wisdom

• on Calypso's island with no ship to take him home

• in the hut of Eumaeus, Odysseus's swineherd

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How was Penelope assured of Odysseus was not an imposter?

• he freed himself from his cell by solving a puzzle he'd used as a lock

• He showed her the tiny heart shaped scar he bore on his left ring finger

• He recited a poem he'd written to show his love on their wedding day

• he knew the secret of the bed he'd build around and ancient olive tree

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